WARREN, Ohio - A Warren Man has sat on death row for nearly 30 years but now his attorneys are bringing the case up again in court trying to get his sentence reduced.

On Wednesday, in Warren’s Court of Appeals, Andre Williams’ attorney attempted to prove that he is intellectually disabled. The U.S. Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional to execute someone deemed mentally incompetent. 

Back in 1988, George Melnick was murdered and his wife Katherine Melnick was attacked in their home during a robbery. Andre Williams was convicted of the crime and sentenced along with another man Christopher Daniel.

Williams was put on death row one year later. Back at the time of the sentence Katherine was happy with the decision.

“What he had done to him, for myself I don't know but for what he had done to my husband that's what makes me so terribly angry,” she said in the courtroom that day back in 1989. 

The prosecutor in the case also praised the jury for the “tough” decision of death that day. 

“I think that based on all the evidence that was the only verdict that they could justifiably reach,” he said.

Williams has filed multiple appeals since then.

His attorney’s latest argument is that IQ scores show that Williams qualifies as intellectually disabled. Some of those tests were taken while Williams was in school - well before the crimes. They also added that prison records show the same.

“Everyone of those prison records makes reference to Andre Williams being mildly mentally retarded,” Williams' attorney said to the judges in the appeals court. 

If Williams is taken off death row he will have another court date for a new sentencing.